Haunted Kapunda

 

Haunted Kapunda by Allen Tiller

 

  Kapunda, dubbed the 'most haunted town in Australia,’ after a 2001 documentary, is full of history, mystery, and the paranormal. In 2019, MSN.com voted the North Kapunda Hotel the 8th most haunted hotel in the world.  Kapunda’s hauntings were featured in the documentary Kapunda: Most Haunted Town in the Western World and the television series Haunting: Australia.

  What makes Kapunda, a historic mining town in South Australia, so haunted?
Join paranormal investigator, historian, and researcher Allen Tiller as he dives into 20-plus years of research into a town his ancestors helped establish. Read about a one-legged pushbike riding ghost, a haunted lolly shop, murders, mining accidents, the truth about Dr Blood, Haunting: Australia’s paranormal investigation in the North Kapunda Hotel, and Allen's connection to some of the most haunted buildings and ghosts in Haunted Kapunda!

 

HAUNTED KAPUNDA by Allen Tiller

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 St Johns - A Ghost Story

This is a similar story, but not the same as, the one published in Valerie Laughton’s book, "True Barossa Ghosts"

 

"In 1980 fourteen students from Kapunda went to Saint John’s Cemetery and reformatory at night. They heard a rumbling, bumping sound; they saw a marble slab move back from one the graves. they could not see any ropes or wires attached and saw nothing emerge. The vases began to move, and the flowers were flung into the air. The students saw a semi-transparent girl with a long white gown, with long dark hair carrying a hurricane lantern that had a yellowish glow moving through the cemetery. Gravestones could be seen through her. the figure glided through a fence and headed towards the old reformatory ruins. She entered the ruins moving through the rooms and passageway and could be seen by the students through the broken windows. After a period of time, the figure headed back down the hill and back to the cemetery. She rose from the ground and her feet could be seen, she thinned into a yellowish-white light and spun herself and drove speedily into the earth. The students worked up the courage and slowly moved into the area where the ghostly figure disappeared. They found a circular spot with strange markings imprinted into the soil."

 

Would you believe the validity of a group of school children who are out thrill-seeking and drinking, who then come home from a "spooky" cemetery and tell this story?

Ghosts of Kapunda Part One: Davidson Reserve (The Duck Pond)

Ghosts of Kapunda 

In 1876 Kapunda was a bustling town, full of miners, pubs, and settlers from across the world looking to earn a living or get rich. It was soon to be the town that saved the South Australian colony from disaster with its rich Copper load, and then to become a town of horse and cattle sales...and in this day and age, it has earned the very misleading title of “Most Haunted Town in Australia”.

  On July 21st 1876 the Kapunda Herald reported a story titled “Haunted Houses and Ghost Stories” 

The newspaper article told the story of a malicious ghost which had been seen around the town, scaring women and children down by the local dam, which is now known as Davidson Reserve (known locally as “The Duck Pond”).

The ghost appeared to be a figure shrouded in white, some people at the time saying the ghost could be Mr Richards, a local School teacher, who drowned many years before in the dam.

Mrs W. Tuckfield witnessed the ghost for herself one Saturday evening. She was coming into the main street of town, near the mill offices, and the ghost rose up out of the newly built culvert, crossed the road in a rush and disappeared into the plantation.

This sighting caused a great shock for Mrs Tuckfield, and the additional telling of her story of the encounter, and those of other witnesses to the ghost, greatly distressed local children and built somewhat of a reputation for the town as a place of ghosts and hauntings.

The Police, worried about the effect the ghost was having on the locals, staked out the neighbourhood for a couple of nights, watching and waiting patiently for the reappearance of the ghost, but it seems ghosts do not manifest for the local boys in blue, as the ghost has not been seen nor heard since...

A practical joke, or a real ghost? No-one at the time was sure...

© 2013 Allen Tiller

first published on The Haunts of Adelaide:

http://hauntedadelaide.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/ghosts-of-kapunda.html

Tuesday 6th August 2013

revised 23 March 2017

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